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Dejected and fretful when his diplomatic credentials failed to arrive in Bonn in time for Sovereignty Day (TIME, May 16), new Ambassador to West Germany James Bryant Conant perked up last week when his Senate confirmation finally showed up. Long a U.S. diplomatic step child as High Commissioner, Harvard's ex-president jubilantly sped off to Bad Kissingen, where West Germany's old (71) President Theodor Heuss was vacationing. Heuss, who had reckoned that the presentation ceremony could wait until he was back on the job, bowed to American haste. He accepted Conant's papers, congratulated...
...suggestion and $20,000 unsolicited donation of Eli Lilly of the Lilly Drug C. who had admired ideas in some of Sorokin's earlier books. At first scheduled to cover a five year project the Center's endowment has been constantly renewed by Lilly ever since President Conant converted the Center into an official adjunct of the university. After its organization Sorokin retired from his University duties and began to devote all his time to its program...
Adenauer, who last visited the United States in 1954, is vacationing at present but is expected to return to Bonn on Thursday. He was last in Cambridge in April of 1953 on part of a tour of the United States with President emeritus Conant, now America's Ambassador to the West German Republic...
...assumed that Conant, who spent three days in Cambridge last February estensibly on a personal visit, arranged that the offer be made to Adenauer at that time...
...Senate confirmed James B. Conant as U.S. Ambassador to Germany...